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The Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority has urged SMAS Almada to proactively compensate residents impacted by recent water supply disruptions.
The Municipalized Water and Sanitation Services of Almada have identified multiple significant water leaks following reinforced inspection efforts aimed at improving system efficiency and promoting responsible resource management.
Water reserves in the Almada municipality have reached 40%, prompting the Municipal Water and Sanitation Services to evaluate potential reductions in ongoing supply cuts that have affected areas like Costa da Caparica.
The Almada municipality has announced further night-time water supply cuts affecting ten areas to restore reserves, prompting concerns from local business owners regarding potential compensation claims and warnings from regulators about temporary water quality changes.
A new water extraction borehole in Almada will begin operations this Sunday, aiming to boost the municipal supply system's capacity by approximately 20%.
The Socialist Party in Setúbal has called on the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities to address the critical water supply instability in Almada, highlighting concerns over infrastructure neglect and service failures.
The municipality of Almada has implemented overnight water cuts from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM as reserves drop to 10% capacity, sparking public unrest and protests amid a deepening supply crisis.
Approximately 1,500 residents in Costa da Caparica, Almada, staged a protest march to demand immediate action regarding persistent water supply failures that have left households without water for days during extreme heat.
Water supply is gradually returning to six areas in Almada following a burst pipe repair, though the municipality continues to face systemic shortages due to record-high consumption levels.
At the beginning of July, the municipality of Almada, in the Setúbal district, experienced difficult moments, with water failing to reach taps in several locations.
PSD, Chega, and Livre wanted to hear from the Mayor of Almada and SMAS officials regarding water supply failures. A PS deputy requested the intervention of Aguiar Branco, who wants to hear from the 1st Committee.
Almada City Council will sign an agreement with Seixal to address a water supply problem that severely affected residents in June and July. The agreement between the two municipalities in the Setúbal district is expected to be signed in early October, announced Environment Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho. According to the minister, the borehole, known as CBR2, is located in the Seixal municipality, as are most of the boreholes supplying Almada, which had been on alert from early July until the end of August due to successive water supply failures, particularly in Costa da Caparica. The minister noted that water is a public good that transcends administrative boundaries. In addition to this immediate solution, other long-term strategies are being studied, including a surface distribution connection between Lisbon and Almada via pipelines near the 25 de Abril Bridge, and a project involving the Castelo de Bode Dam.
The municipalities of Almada and Seixal are set to sign an agreement for the licensing of a water extraction borehole, aiming to resolve the Almada municipality's supply problem in the short term. The announcement was made this Wednesday by the Minister of Environment, Maria da Graça Carvalho. The agreement between the two municipalities...
Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho announced an agreement between Almada and Seixal to license the CBR2 borehole and two additional solutions, including a connection to Lisbon and Castelo de Bode.
The municipalities of Almada and Seixal are set to sign an agreement for the licensing of a water borehole, aiming for a short-term resolution to the water supply issue in the Almada municipality.
The agreement between the two municipalities in the Setúbal district is expected to be signed at the beginning of October.
Inês de Medeiros says everything depends on the speed of the work execution. The mayor of Almada reveals that the municipality has found a “surprising” number of diversions and has therefore increased oversight.
The mayor, Inês de Medeiros, says that the implementation of the agreement depends on the speed of the work. Also, Russia's air defences shot down more than 500 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The Almada City Council and EPAL are set to sign an agreement to study the reinforcement of the water supply in the municipality, following the crisis experienced during the summer. The company must propose a supply contract.
The agreement comes months after supply failures that affected the Costa da Caparica. EPAL will fund a study to diversify water sources in the municipality.
The municipality of Almada and EPAL will sign an agreement on Wednesday, September 23, to study a solution to improve the resilience and security of the local water supply system. Currently, Almada relies exclusively on groundwater from the Setúbal Peninsula aquifer. The agreement aims to diversify water sources by introducing surface water, addressing the pressure on underground reserves and climate change challenges. EPAL will develop a structural supply study at its own expense, with the goal of ensuring system redundancy. This follows a summer of water supply failures in the region, particularly in Costa da Caparica, which led to public protests and government intervention to find a long-term solution.
The municipality and EPAL will study a solution using surface water to reinforce the system
Almada was in a state of alert from the beginning of July until the end of August due to successive failures in the water supply.
Frederico Rosa, mayor of Barreiro, considers it important to “create the necessary redundancies in high-level intake,” distribution, and storage for a resilient regional system.
The hypothesis put forward by the Minister of Environment is seen by Quercus as the only “efficient” one, and Almada City Council views it favourably. The Zero Association would prefer direct extraction from the Tagus River.
The new equipment, with a capacity of 1000 litres each, provides an additional contingency solution for storing and making water available for human consumption.
The Zero Association has serious reservations about the government's solution to reinforce the water supply to the South Bank of the Tagus, including Almada, by using the Castelo de Bode Dam.
The Almada municipality, which has experienced a water supply crisis in recent months, states it has been working with EPAL (Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres) for nearly a month to draft a potential contract with the company.
Águas de Portugal and the Portuguese Environment Agency have 120 days to propose a technical solution to reinforce water supply to the South Bank and the new airport, drawing from the Tagus River or Castelo de Bode.
The Government will move forward with a special plan to respond to the pressure of industrial investments in the municipality of Sines, in the Setúbal district, with responses in the areas of housing, education, and health, it was announced today.
